| Mount Vernon Square 7th St - Convention Center |
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| Address | 700 M Street NW Washington, DC 20001 |
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| Connections | Metrobus DC Circulator Loudoun County Commuter Bus |
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| Structure | Underground | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 6 racks | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 11, 1991 | |||||||||||||||
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| Code | E01 | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | WMATA | |||||||||||||||
| Formerly | Mt Vernon Square-UDC (1991-2001) Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center (2001-2011) |
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| Passengers (2010) | 1.574 million[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Mount Vernon Square is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green and Yellow Lines. Yellow Line trains terminate service here in peak hours, and reverse direction using a pocket track just north of the station. Metro has been running off-peak and weekend Yellow Line trains north to Fort Totten since 2006. Mount Vernon Square is the least-used station within the Metro system's core section, seeing only 3,813 entries each weekday.[2]
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Mount Vernon Square station is located at the border of the neighborhoods of Downtown and Shaw in the northwestern quadrant of Washington. Its namesake, Mount Vernon Square, is located two blocks to the south at the convergence of New York Avenue and Massachusetts Avenues and 7th, 9th, and K Streets. The station's subtitle is derived from the station's location along 7th Street NW, and its close proximity to the Washington Convention Center, although the station is only one of five Metro stations that run underneath 7th Street NW.
Like many other Metro stations in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Mount Vernon Square station has spurred development in its proximity. Most prominent is the Washington Convention Center, although a number of smaller residential and commercial projects have been completed within the surrounding blocks. To the southeast of the station is the Mount Vernon Triangle, a business improvement district (BID) seeing rapid mixed-use growth. To the southwest of the station is the mixed-use CityCenterDC development project, which is currently in construction.
Service began on May 11, 1991. The station mezzanine was renovated in 2003 to coincide with the opening of the current Washington Convention Center. The renovation included additional faregates and a new street entrance.
On January 7, 2007, the fifth car of a six-car train derailed in the tunnel at the interlocking south of the station, sending twenty people to the hospital for minor injuries and significantly damaging a rail car.[3][4] Service resumed the next day at 5 AM.[5]
Originally planned to be named "Federal City College", the station was named "Mount Vernon Square - UDC" at the time of its 1991 opening. The station was renamed "Mt Vernon Sq/7th Street-Convention Center" in 2001. On November 3, 2011, the station was again renamed, taking "Mount Vernon Square" as the main name, with "7th Street - Convention Center" as a subtitle.[6]
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